Oz Government Seizes Games For "Full Classification"

sprayNwipe writes: "QGL is reporting that the Office of Film and Literature Classification has raided game stores in Australia and removed games from shelves, after deeming that said games are offensive earlier in the day. Some of these games are big christmas sellers, too (Grand Theft Auto 3, and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon). Why must our government be filled with luddites?" Can any Australians comments on what "full classification" means? Does it only mean labels, or are some games outright banned?

Comments

Grand Theft Video?

[jorbettis]

I find it amusing that they took these games on the pretense that, if the public had access to them, they would learn by example to do things that are not good for society (ie, stealing cars).

So the Aussie government's solution is to go out and legally steal all of the video game copies from the stores.

Yeah, really great example there guys.

I guess their message is that stealing is ok if it's being done For the Children(tm).

It reminds me of the tee-shirt, with a picture of a swat team breaking into a house, the caption reads "We're from the government, we're here to help!"